Edythe
Edythe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 256th, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918582 births
- Best rank
- #256in 1915
- Since 1880
- 13,872people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,872 girls have been named Edythe in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 582 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 582 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 29%. It has spent 70 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Edythe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 344 | |
| 1890s | 810 | |
| 1900s | 1,275 | |
| 1910s | 4,055 | |
| 1920s | 3,826 | |
| 1930s | 1,333 | |
| 1940s | 933 | |
| 1950s | 622 | |
| 1960s | 352 | |
| 1970s | 117 | |
| 1980s | 34 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 28 | |
| 2010s | 101 | |
| 2020s | 37 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Edythe was the 261st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Edythe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Inezpeak 1920
- Ionepeak 1920
- Tessiepeak 1917
- Herminapeak 1916
- Hortensepeak 1919
- Leonapeak 1918
- Verdapeak 1918
- Eldapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.